Michelle Materre

Ms. Materre’s professional background spans more than 25 years experience as film producer, writer, arts administrator, distribution/marketing specialist, film programmer and college professor. She is currently an Associate Professor of Media Studies and Film at The New School. Her critically acclaimed film series, Creatively Speaking, featuring work by and about people and women of color, is now in its 22nd year. Ms. Materre is also an independent media consultant, advising filmmakers and organizations on fundraising, distribution, marketing, and exhibition strategies. Selected client list includes: Julie Dash, Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, Channel Thirteen, Stanley Nelson, Thomas Allen Harris, Barbara Rick, Kim Longinotto, and Third World Newsreel, to name a few. Ms. Materre is a current member of the Board of Directors of Women Make Movies, and former member of the Board of Directors of New York Women in Film and Television, and a recipient of The Pen and Brush Society, Accomplished Women in the Arts Award, as well as the New School University Distinguished Teaching Award. In January 2016, the film series she curated along with Jake Perlin of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, "Tell It Like It Is", won the National Society of Film Critics "Film Heritage" award. This is an award bestowed by The Society which represents movie criticism in the United States by supplying the official critic delegate to the National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress and meets once a year in January to to vote on the Society’s awards for the finest film achievements of the previous year. Another series she curated "One Way or Another: Black Women FIlmmakers 1970-1991" at BAMcinematek in February 2017 was titled "Best Repertory Series of 2017" by Richard Brody of The New Yorker Magazine. The same series also just one the "Film Heritage Award" from the National Society of Film Critics for 2017.